The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has summoned Paul Adom-Otchere, former Board Chairman of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), over suspected corruption involving a controversial revenue assurance and audit contract awarded to Evatex Logistics Limited.
In a letter dated July 25, 2025, the OSP directed Adom-Otchere to report to its office at Haile Selassie Avenue, South Ridge, Accra, at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, 31 July, for questioning. The letter said, “You are considered a suspect in this investigation.”
The summons follows an investigation into a contract awarded by GACL to Evatex, originally a mining and stevedoring firm with no known background in auditing, three days before the December 2024 general election. Documents suggest the contract may have been backdated, with evidence pointing to the possibility that it was formalized only after the New Patriotic Party lost the election.
Despite lacking the requisite experience or staffing, Evatex was selected to provide audit and revenue assurance services. The company had only one employee on record with the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), while GACL’s own Audit, Risk Management and Compliance department has nine personnel. GACL, which employs over 1,500 staff overall, cited a lack of internal capacity as the justification for outsourcing the task.
Adom-Otchere has not denied the GACL management’s assertion that he introduced Evatex to the board. He also confirmed that the procurement process began at the board level.
Further investigations revealed that Evatex is linked to Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Ltd (SML), the company at the center of a previous scandal involving over US$141 million in audit-related contracts with the Ghana Revenue Authority and the Ministry of Finance. Under the tenure of former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, SML’s mandate was controversially expanded to include auditing in the upstream petroleum and gold mining sectors, contracts estimated to earn the company over US$100 million annually for five years, with an option to renew for another five.
The OSP has not disclosed whether others may also be questioned or prosecuted, but the Evatex contract has become the latest in a string of high-profile probes into procurement irregularities at state institutions.
